Product Description
by L. Hunter Lovins (Author), Stewart Wallis (Author), Anders Wijkman (Author)
Humanity is in a race with catastrophe and charting the course to a regenerative economy is the most important work facing the world. A Finer Future gathers the evidence and delivers the essential blueprint for an economy that works for people and the planet.
Front Jacket
The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet
This book is your entry ticket to the movement for sustainable well-being and a better world.
-- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors, The Spirit Level
Indeed, there is a regenerative economy to be built and it will be the keystone of a finer future, laid out here by four of the most observant and prescient thinkers of our time.
-- David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College, and author, Dangerous Years
An important book for our times.
-- Andrew Winston, author, The Big Pivot and Green to Gold
Beautifully comprehensive and inspiring. What we need.
-- Dr. Eban Goodstein, director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Simply a must-read if you are interested in the future of the planet and your role in it!
-- Brenna St. Onge, executive director, The Alliance Center
A new story that can galvanize the largest "we" in human history. This book calls us to serve sanity, justice, and every living thing.
-- Donna Morton, CEO, Change Finance
A masterful mix of the hard and soft sciences, putting solid numbers behind sound narratives.
-- Nils Moe, managing director, Urban Sustainability Directors Network
Essential reading to enable an avalanche of creative solutions that embed resilience and restore natural capital in every project.
-- Professor Cheryl Desha, Head of Civil Engineering, Griffith University and co-author, Factor 5 and Whole System Design
Rarely has economics been so fun and exhilarating to read about. It blends vision with insightful analysis of why our world is in such a perilous state, with a good helping of tangible examples of the changes so vitally needed.
-- Dr. Katherine Trebeck, research director, Wellbeing Economy Alliance
Author Biography
L. Hunter Lovins, Time Magazine's Millennium Hero for the Planet, is a business professor, President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, and co-author of The Way Out and the best-selling Natural Capitalism. Stewart Wallis was Executive Director of the New Economics Foundation, UK, and advises the World Economic Forum. Anders Wijkman is Co-Chair of the Club of Rome, a former EU parliamentarian, and co-author of Bankrupting Nature and Come On! John Fullerton is President of Capital Institute and former Managing Director at JP Morgan. More about the book can be found at ourfinerfuture.com.
